Christmas Bird Count. Jan 3, 2020, Part 2
For many, the new year means looking back on the past accomplishments and checking off your goals. For birders, it means tallying up your species list and recording all the birds you’ve spotted in the...
3 Jan 202047min
2019 Year In Review. Dec 27 2019, Part 1
In 2019 we experienced some painful and heartbreaking moments—like the burning of the Amazon rainforest, a worldwide resurgence of measles cases, and the first ever deaths linked to vaping. Ira talks...
27 Des 201948min
Looking Back at the Pale Blue Dot. Dec 27, 2019, Part 2
Few people could put the cosmos in perspective better than astronomer Carl Sagan. And that’s why we’re taking this opportunity to take another listen to this classic conversation with Sagan, recorded ...
27 Des 201947min
Emerging Technologies, Pokémon In The Brain, Colds And Flu. Dec 20, 2019, Part 1
Back when Science Friday began in 1991, the Internet, as we know it, didn’t even exist. While ARPA-NET existed and the first web pages began to come online, social media, online shopping, streaming vi...
20 Des 201946min
Space Junk, Chronobiology, Mistletoe. Dec 20, 2019, Part 2
As more commercial companies are getting into the satellite launching game, space is becoming a crowded place and all of these objects are creating space debris. Right now, there are approximately 2,0...
20 Des 201946min
Degrees of Change: Transportation. December 13, 2019, Part 1
Transportation—whether it be your car, aircraft, cargo ships, or the heavy trucks carrying all those holiday packages—makes a big contribution to the world’s CO2 emissions. In the U.S., the transporta...
13 Des 201947min
Insulin Marketplace, Hair, Whale Size. December 13, 2019, Part 2
Why Diabetes Patients Are Getting Insulin From Facebook Almost one in ten Americans are diagnosed with diabetes, according to the most recent statistics from the CDC. With those odds, you likely know ...
13 Des 201947min
Undiscovered Presents: Spontaneous Generation
These days, biologists believe all living things come from other living things. But for a long time, people believed that life would, from time to time, spontaneously pop into existence more often—and...
11 Des 201920min
